Bellflower Resin Bee

Megachile campanulae

The Bellflower Resin Bee is a small, fuzzy bee that loves to collect resin from plants. They are great pollinators and help flowers grow by spreading pollen as they visit them.

Lebensraum: Grasslands

Aussehen

The Bellflower Resin Bee is a dark-bodied bee with distinct pale yellow to whitish hair bands on its abdomen. It has a bright reddish-orange "pollen brush" (scopa) on the underside of its belly and robust mandibles for manipulating sticky resin.

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Bellflower Resin Bee

Kategorie

Insekten

Seltenheit

Common

Gefahr

1/5 · Sehr gering

Snaps

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Interessante Fakten

Bellflower Resin Bees often sleep inside bellflowers, using them as tiny sleeping bags!

Each female bee builds her own cozy nest, all by herself!

They carry pollen on their belly hairs, not on their legs like honeybees!

They seal their nests with sticky tree sap, like nature's super glue!

Besondere Fähigkeiten

Bellflower Resin Bees can collect and sculpt sticky tree resin because it helps them build strong, waterproof nest cells.

Bellflower Resin Bees have stiff hairs on their belly that helps them carry huge loads of pollen back to their nests.

Bellflower Resin Bees can efficiently gather nectar and pollen from bellflowers because they are perfectly adapted to them.

Maße und Details

Flügelspannweite: 15-25 mm
Größe: 9-13 mm
Lebenserwartung: 20-40 Tage
Fluggeschwindigkeit: 15 km/h
Anzahl der Beine: 6
Koloniegröße: 1

Ernährung und Fütterung

Nectar fuels their flight, while pollen feeds their growing young!

Hauptnahrung

Nectar (Bellflowers)
Pollen (Bellflowers)
Nectar (other flowers)
Pollen (other flowers)

Nahrungssuche

Foraging

Ökologische Zusammenhänge

pollinates

Harebell

Campanula rotundifolia

Primary pollinator for its specialized host flower.

eaten by

European Garden Spider

Araneus diadematus

Spiders often ambush foraging bees near flowers.

parasitizes

Bellflower Cuckoo Bee

Coelioxys coturnix

Lays eggs in its nests, stealing food for its own young.

Merkmale

Pelzig

Pelzig beschreibt Tiere, die eine dichte Schicht aus weichen Haaren oder Fell besitzen.

Einzelgänger

Einzelgänger leben den größten Teil ihres Lebens allein und interagieren mit Artgenossen nur zur Paarung oder zur Aufzucht der Jungen.

Bestäubermagnet

Beschreibt Pflanzen, die für eine Vielzahl von bestäubenden Organismen besonders attraktiv und nützlich sind.

Grasland

Grasland-Lebensräume sind terrestrische Biome, die von Gräsern und krautigen Pflanzen dominiert werden und einer Vielzahl von Weidetieren als Lebensraum dienen.